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OK, I must admit "useless" is a too harsh word but the thing is our beloved offsetWidth/offsetHeight JavaScript DOM properties are now not accurate any more in Internet Explorer 9 and Firefox 4. Firstly introduced in IE4 in 1997, these DOM properties are the simplest and quickest way of getting the computed pixel dimensions (the border-box) of any page element and they used to work perfectly in all browsers released since then. Well, not any more in IE9 and FF4. Read on to learn why and what you can do to workaround the issue...

* A special note for Firefox on Windows/LinuxFirefox 4 on Windows and Linux has this issue only when hardware accelerated rendering is enabled in the Options/Preferences (and, of course, supported on the machine). I always get the issue on Mac.